tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-133521035538248322.post8069054280759124057..comments2023-12-24T05:39:44.753-06:00Comments on Mike Klonsky's Blog: An entire Chicago community resists charter expansionMike Klonskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02017021676773731024noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-133521035538248322.post-14825598575826955092015-05-25T16:04:39.220-05:002015-05-25T16:04:39.220-05:00Anon, Not sure I get your point. "Don't b...Anon, Not sure I get your point. "Don't be fooled" about what?Mike Klonskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02017021676773731024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-133521035538248322.post-47920769179540374682015-05-24T17:45:40.389-05:002015-05-24T17:45:40.389-05:00The rhetoric over Noble is a bit over the top, it ...The rhetoric over Noble is a bit over the top, it CPS was doing well there would be no market for Noble. <br />Rahm did take out some North Side Schools. The schools on the South and West Sides closed as student population had fallen. The populations fell 'cause black and brown families fled those areas because many their jobs fled Chicago. <br />Don't buy the political rhetoric, its pure pandering. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-133521035538248322.post-31790377978248701602015-05-24T14:35:15.060-05:002015-05-24T14:35:15.060-05:00I think the letter is great but, again, I am wonde...I think the letter is great but, again, I am wondering why/how big-time charter promoter (& creator of the IL Charter School Commission) Sen Heather Steans signed it? Can any reader (or, perhaps you, Mike) explain (or interview her)?* In case y'all don't know, she is sister of Robin Steans, Exec. Director of Advance ILL-Annoy, the org. behind SB 1 (you know, the "redistribution" of school funds, so those low-income districts will get $$ taken away from SDs such as Evanston-Skokie 65 & 202--to the tune of $10 million, not to mention the dissemination of funds set aside for special ed & other programs that are the life-blood of public education). And, did any of you read the Point/Counterpoint (about standardized testing/CCRAP) in the Sun-Times the other day? Finally, S-T ed. board had some ??? about the tests, but the Counterpoint presented was same-old-same-old, & was written by the groups...Advance ILL-Annoy, Stand on Children & a few other of our favorites.<br />Oh, & I've also gotten info. that Advance is, indeed, living up to the first part of its name--advancing their agenda in Springfield. So, Small Talk readers, you are warned.<br /><br />*My take is--don't be fooled.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com